Open Source Project Brings 11th Century Kannada Verses Online

Posted by brideoflinux on Apr 2, 2014 11:51 PM EDT
FOSS Force; By Pavithra Hanchagaiah, Omshivaprakash HI and Subhashish Panigrahi 		Mail this story
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This project was started a year ago when Kannada Wikimedian Omshivaprakash was trying to help Professor O. L. Naghabhushana Swamy and Kannada author and publisher Vasudhendra to easily access the vachana (verses) of Vachana Sanchaya. Swamy had challenges in using publicly available content on Vachanas since the data was in ASCII standard and searching text was a huge problem. Pavithra Hanchagaiah started helping to collect information about about vachanas and document them into Unicode by writing scripts to customize open source software to convert the Kannada fonts from ASCII into Unicode.

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